Gerald Prenderghast

Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons

A History from the Zhuge Crossbow Through the AK-47

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Produktbeschreibung

From the very earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have wanted to develop weapons with more firepower. This has inevitably led to a wide variety of repeating weapons, capable of a degree of sustained fire without reloading. Based largely upon new research, this book explores the history of repeating and multi-fire weapons, beginning with the Chinese repeating crossbow in the 4th century BCE, and ending with the world's most common firearm, the Kalashnikov AK-47. The author describes the potency of the machine gun in World War I, the development of the semiautomatic pistol and the role of the submachine gun in improving the effectiveness of the infantryman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 815g
• ISBN-13: 9781476666662
• ISBN-10: 1476666660
• Artikelnr.: 48464987

Autorenporträt

The late Gerald Prenderghast was a military historian and lived in Kent, United Kingdom. His publications included books about historic firearms, maritime history and Britain's involvement in the Wars in Vietnam.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Glossary Section I: Early Repeating Weapons One.
Repeating Weapons from the Ancient World Section II: Without Black Powder Two.
Perkin's Steam Gun and Other Oddities Section III: The Black Powder Three.
Early Military Rockets Four.
Early Black Powder Weapons Five.
Early Repeating Pistols and Colt's Percussion Revolvers Six.
The Rimfire Revolver and Rollin White's Patent Seven.
Pinfire and Centerfire Revolvers Eight.
Repeating Rifles and Shotguns Nine.
Early Machine Guns and Repeating Cannon Ten.
The Gatling Gun: Gatling's 150-Year-Old Masterpiece Section IV: The Smokeless Powder Eleven.
Maxim's Automatic Machine Gun: "The Devil's Paintbrush" Twelve.
Smokeless Powder and Repeating Rifles Thirteen.
Self-Loading or Semiautomatic Pistols Section V: The Machine-gun Fourteen.
The Development of Repeating and Multi-fire Weapons in the Early 20th Century Fifteen.
Light Machine Guns in World War I Sixteen.
Medium and Heavy Machine Guns in World War I Seventeen.
Submachine Guns, Semiautomatic Rifles and Postwar Changes Eighteen.
Light Machine Gun Development After World War I Nineteen.
Heavy Machine Gun and Automatic Cannon Development After World War I Twenty.
Assault Rifles and the Rise of the "Woolworth's" Gun Twenty-one.
Perspectives Chapter Notes Bibliography Index